About Me
I'm Jude, a Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer originally from Nigeria 🇳🇬, now building AI-ready cloud platforms from Amsterdam 🇳🇱.
The Journey
Growing up in Nigeria, frequent power outages weren't just inconveniences - they were lessons in resilience and reliability. This early experience shaped my obsession with building systems that never go down. Today, I architect platforms that achieve 99.99% uptime, turning infrastructure from a cost center into a competitive advantage.
The Evolution
My career mirrors the industry's transformation. Starting as a SAP Technical Administrator at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, I've evolved alongside technology - from managing on-premise servers to orchestrating cloud-native architectures processing terabytes of data across multiple continents.
The Impact
Over 10 years, I've saved companies over €2.5 million through intelligent automation and right-sizing. But numbers only tell part of the story. I've mentored 20+ engineers, watching them grow from writing their first Terraform module to architecting entire platforms. Their success is my greatest achievement.
Beyond the Terminal
When I'm not architecting systems or exploring AI/ML infrastructure, I play chess, and this surprisingly enhances my technical work; the clarity, observation and patience for a piece move often illuminates elegant solutions to complex problems.
What's Next
I'm deepening my expertise in ML platforms and AI infrastructure - building GPU-ready clusters, ML pipelines, and applying SRE practices to model serving. My ideal role combines this technical depth with my passion for mentoring engineers and driving platform transformations that unlock business value.
Tech Stack
The tools I reach for most often when building platforms.
Weapons of Choice
Full Toolkit
Cloud & Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code
GitOps & CI/CD
Data & ML Platforms
Observability
Languages
Philosophy
Platform as Product
Internal platforms should be treated like products with real users. Developer experience matters.
GitOps Over ClickOps
Everything in Git, everything auditable. If it's not in version control, it doesn't exist.
Measure What Matters
SLOs, not vanity metrics. Cost attribution, not just total spend. Impact over activity.
Automate the Toil
If you do it twice, automate it. Engineers should solve problems, not repeat tasks.